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Race Start Week
Race start week is here. On Sunday, 31st August 2025, the Clipper 2025-26 Round the World Yacht Race will depart Portsmouth. Leading up to the start of the first race, there is a lot happening. The Race Village will be open from 10:00 to 19:00 daily starting on Friday, 29th August. In addition, there are…
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Prep Week – Part 2
Also in the previous week the preparations were in full swing. The list of tasks was long and the days were thus equally long. It takes a lot to prepare a yacht for an ocean crossing. And in the months to come we will do several of them. Therefore, the focus for our preparations was…
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Prep week: We are Team Tongyeong
The last week has been full of work. We all started out by collecting our sails. Once we had the sails, we laid them out in a park to label them and mark various positions, which will on one hand make it easier to properly attach the sail when we want to hoist it. On…
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Four weeks until race start
Exactly four weeks are left until we start the first race. On 31st August we will start from Portsmouth with a clear goal: circumnavigating the world. It still sounds surreal to me. I am reflecting on what I might have forgotten. For me there is another week until heading over to England for the final…
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Where do we go?
Just under six weeks are remaining until the start of the race. The preparations are in full swing. I hope I will find some time to post an update. But in the meantime I will give you a short overview of where we are going. At the moment, we don’t have all ports confirmed where…
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L4 – Final Training
End of June I was again on my way to the South-English city of Gosport. It was time for my fourth and final week of training, before starting the race around the world end of August. Everyone has anticipated this moment and worked hard to get there. For me it felt even more special as…
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Preparation
It is another 71 days until the first race will start from Portsmouth in southern England. On one hand it is more than two months which appears ample of time, on the other hand preparations are in full swing. In this post I want to give a short overview of what is part of the…
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UNICEF Fundraiser
This season marks a decade of partnership between The Clipper Race and UNICEF. This year, The Clipper Race is aiming to raise $420,000 towards UNICEF’s work for children. UNICEF In many parts of the world children do not have access to education, medical treatment or even food. To combat this, UNICEF contributes substantially to grant…
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My team is…
So far I have completed the first three out of the four compulsory levels of training, not knowing who I would be sailing with in the actual race. But this has changed now. On 17th May my campaign got a little more real. Together with some 300 other crew I gathered in the Guildhall in…
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Florian's Clipper 2025-26 Race Campaign
The ocean is the limit
